Grover Cleveland wins the U.S. presidential election…
November 1892 CE
The issue of the tariff had worked to the Republicans' advantage in 1888.
The legislative revisions of the past four years have also made imported goods so expensive that now many voters favored tariff reform and were skeptical of big business.
Many Westerners, traditionally Republican voters, had defected to James Weaver, the candidate of the new Populist Party, who had promised Free Silver, generous veterans' pensions, and an eight-hour work day.
The Tammany Hall Democrats adhere to the national ticket, allowing a united Democratic party to carry New York.
At the campaign's end, many Populists and labor supporters had endorsed Cleveland after an attempt by the Carnegie Corporation to break the union during the Homestead strike in Pittsburgh and after a similar conflict between big business and labor at the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co.
The final result is a victory for Cleveland by wide margins in both the popular and electoral votes, and it is Cleveland's third consecutive popular vote plurality.
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